Guild Wars 2

I’ll keep this as brief as possible.

Overall, the changes to FoTM were pretty good. I can understand a lot of the higher level fractal folks being upset, however, with their level reset to 30.

The ‘story mode’, in my opinion was a waste development time, development resources, and our time. There is absolutely no reason to have added this in as a requirement to continue on with fractals. It was just in the way. It was nothing more than frustrating because my group, at least, had no idea what to do. There was no direction in game. And on top of that, you did not QA the dungeon for a waypoint! A simple waypoint! This was completely unnecessary and a waste of everyone’s time. And I dont think anyone asked for this, or even whispered about wanting some sort of story mode that had zero impact on the overall flavor of FoTM.

The new fractals are good. Keeping with the tradition of interesting bosses and mechanics within FoTM, you guys have done a good job at implementing things like Molten Facility into a FoTM format, so much that it is not very long and yet it is challenging and interesting. Kudos.

The changes to infusions on gear and now being craftable via artificing…still unsure. I like being able to slow craft up some infusions. I think thats pretty good unless someone can point out some negatives (other than having to have an artificer to do it and more ‘crafting to win’…). Im still trying to wrap my head around the changes to infusion on gear. If other people can touch on that, please do.

I ran the story mode, and 2 sets of fractals in one day. I am now 9 out of 11 achievements done for the meta. I like this. Its not feeling grindy(yet) and I’ll be able to achieve this without ripping my eyes out. However, the daily achievement ‘Daily Fractal Runner’ is bugged for me(Ive submitted a report), where I have not received credit for it yet and Ive completed 2 sets already.

Overall, the fractured update is pretty good. This is the first real good patch in a while, from my perspective, and I think that is because it has very little(if any thing) to do with the overall arcing Living Story. See how that works? Put true content in the game, and its good stuff. Focus on Scarlet and her horrible Living Story, and its just a silly grind. 11 achievements is still a bit much but for this update you acquire them quickly. Please, in the future, because Im sure future achievements wont be so easily obtained, reduce the number of achievements. And finally, get rid of scarlet.